Meet the team

The Quip team

We're a team committed to changing the way the world works together and we have fun doing it. We're an eclectic group of cheese lovers, parents, world travelers, and hard-core (board)gamers.

Leadership

Bret Taylor

Founder

Kevin Gibbs

Founder

Patrick Moran

CCO

Alice Hehman

COO

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Jon McAlister

Previously worked at Google (News, App Engine, Code Jam). Attended Stanford (Math BS, CS MS). Originally from Houston, Texas. Used to be into coding competitions.

Jon McAlister

Patrick Linehan

Before Quip, Pat did a short stint at Google working on search. Prior to that, he worked on software to automatically discover drugs in silico at biotech startups Numerate, Inc. and Pharmix, Corp. He spends his free time drinking Hop Stoopid and napping.

Patrick Linehan

Matthew Cahill

Redacted.

Matthew Cahill

Matt Cooley

Matt was most recently the Chief Revenue Officer at Mixpanel. Prior to that, Matt led sales at New Relic, helping to grow them from $0 to $100 million in ARR. Matt spent almost seven years helping build a sales organization at Citrix Online focused on direct sales of software as a service (SaaS) offerings that include GotoMeeting, GotoMyPC and GotoAssist. Matt holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of San Diego.

Matt Cooley

Mihai Parparita

Mihai enjoys being an engineer on tools that he uses every day. Prior to Quip, Mihai was at Google, where he worked on Google Reader, WebKit, and Chrome. Mihai is an amateur plane spotter, and if requested can bore you with details about winglets, sharklets and chevrons.

Mihai Parparita

Nate White

Nate comes to Quip from Google App Engine, where he worked with world-famous explorers and superheroes. He studied Computer Science and Economics at Georgetown University, and previously worked on distributed systems at Isilon Systems and Clustrix.

Nate White

Teddy Underwood

Teddy is putting his career as a banjo picker on hold to help drive partnerships and business development at Quip. Teddy comes directly from Instagram where as Head of Marketing Partnerships he focused on building the company’s ads business. Before that, he spent over 7 years at Facebook building partnerships with major retailers and gaming companies and handling the crazy legal issues of a startup as a lawyer. Teddy is a Stanford University undergrad alum and received his law degree from University of California, Hastings.

Teddy Underwood

Nate Botwick

Nate Botwick spends most of his time staying up to date on the hottest SoLoMo trends while riding his DJI Quadcopter Drone (with GoPro mount). Prior to Quip, he ran Business Analysis at GREE and studied various other things.

Nate Botwick

Yunjie Ma

Yunjie codes for food and whiskey. Prior to Quip, she developed intricate worlds filled with zoo animals, dragons, zombies, and sorority girls. Yunjie has a BS and MEng from MIT, and has worked previously at Pocket Gems, MITRE, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Morgan Stanley.

Yunjie Ma

Ross Miller

Ross is the Office Needs Special Operations Leader at Quip. Three of his top 27 abilities include folding napkins into a bird of paradise, choosing the winning lane in traffic, and creating stop motion LEGO videos. (Previous: Taylor Engineering and CSU Chico)

Ross Miller

Julie Tung

Julie comes to Quip by way of Dropbox, Facebook and Google. She has an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford. In her free time, Julie enjoys reading, playing board games and video games, and experimenting in the kitchen (and eating the results!).

Julie Tung

Sophia Westwood

Sophia joins Quip after completing her BS and MS in Computer Science at Stanford. She’s interned at Khan Academy teaching kids to code online, and at Palantir and Google. Sophia likes to pet dogs and find fruit on sale, but dislikes wasabi.

Sophia Westwood

Dave Engelberg

Dave works on the business team at Quip. Prior to that, he spent time at Facebook, Halfbrick, GREE, and OpenFeint, working on games you may have played if you own a smartphone. Most notably, Dave hasn’t lost to his father in ping-pong in over 15 years.

Dave Engelberg

Belinda Gu

Before Quip, Belinda spent time at Google, Quora, and Microsoft. She has an MS and BS in Computer Science from Stanford. In her free time, Belinda enjoys hugging animals, playing board games, and trying new macaron flavors.

Belinda Gu

Sam Taylor

Sam comes to Quip by way of Dropbox, where he helped grow the sales org from 5 to 150 people. He studied Environmental Science at Bates College and previously worked at Salesforce.com. When he’s not building sales teams, you can find Sam playing basketball or fly fishing in the Sierras.

Sam Taylor

Logan Randolph

For years, Logan’s office was the mountains. During summer he worked as a mountaineering guide on Rainier and Denali, during winter he ski patrolled. Recently, his office has been… an office. Before Quip, Logan worked with a productivity company and an ad tech startup. Logan surfs, climbs, and competes in triathlons... and normally doesn’t refer to himself in the third person.

Logan Randolph

Cristina Mondini

Proud Texan, idea-girl, and foodie, Cristina joins Quip’s Business Team after six years at Google, where she grew their Google Apps and DoubleClick businesses to new heights. When she’s not transforming businesses, you can find her making new friends at local hot-spots or perfecting her famous queso!

Cristina Mondini

Brina Lee

Before joining Quip, Brina was the first female engineer at Instagram and previously worked at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!. She graduated with an undergrad degree in Communications and masters in Computer Science from UC San Diego. You will occasionally see her favorite furry friend, Miles the Doodle, at work with her.

Brina Lee

Christine Magnuson

Christine is a part of our sales family. Prior to Quip, she traveled with Team USA as a 2008 silver medalist in swimming and then sold specialized consulting services to the Fortune 500. Now that she has escaped Chicago winters, she loves discovering new Bay Area hiking trails, drinking fair trade coffee, and having dry hair.

Christine Magnuson

Kevin Crain

Kevin collaborates with Quip’s sales and ops teams to engineer tools for customer assessment & success. As an avid hiker and skier, he loves exploring northern California’s natural beauty. Free-time hobbies include: reading, climbing, watching pro real-time strategy games (okay... video games), chess, and brewing beer. He has a BA in philosophy and a MS in computer science from Stanford.

Kevin Crain

Kathryn Benson

Bio coming soon!

Kathryn Benson

Peter Vidani

Peter is a Director of Design at Quip. He moved to San Francisco from New York City where he spent 7 years as Tumblr’s Creative Director. He is proud to be the only person on this page with an emoji in their bio 💅

Peter Vidani

Kristin Sherman

Kristin joins Quip’s Business Team by way of Salesforce, where she helped healthcare companies adopt innovative technologies with the purpose of improving patient lives. She may be found tumbling down black diamonds as she learns to ski, however her preferred method of transportation is skipping. She’s easily distracted by puppies.

Kristin Sherman

Wade Hauser

Wade joins the Quip business team from Dropbox, where he worked on the sales and user operations teams. Outside of work, he enjoys bodysurfing, fishing, and playing H.O.R.S.E. Growing up Wade wanted to be a cowboy but instead went to Tufts University, graduating with a BA in Economics.

Wade Hauser

Derek Smyth

Derek joined Quip after strategic partnership roles at LeadiD, Wasserman, and LeadDog. He is an avid adventurer and photographer, and doesn’t miss East Coast winters (but still invests too much emotion in Philly sports). He has a BS in Marketing from UPenn (Wharton).

Derek Smyth

Rafael Alenda

Rafael is a marketer at Quip. He’s worked at some startups you may have heard of including New Relic where he was VP of Online & Brand. Unanimously voted “The World’s Best Dad” by his three sons in 2013, Rafael enjoys spending time cooking Spanish food and boring you to death talking about soccer... seriously, don’t ask him.

Rafael Alenda

Diana Berlin

Diana is a product manager at Quip. She’s also a big fan of reading, writing, and spreadsheeting. Before Quip, she worked in product management and strategy at SoundCloud, Kickstarter, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Diana Berlin

Yang Su

Yang comes to Quip from Coursera, where he worked on the online learning experience, monetization and growth. Prior to that, he graduated in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Duke and previously interned at Google and Klout. He also has an identical twin who currently works in China.

Yang Su

Shrey Banga

Before Quip, Shrey was an engineer at Quora, where he worked on the editor, developer tools and growth. In his spare time, Shrey enjoys British humor, trivia and chai.

Shrey Banga

Michael Handler

Michael thinks about and engineers operational reliability at Quip (as he has been fortunate enough to do at Google (App Engine, Gmail), Stripe, and elsewhere), and tries to expect the unexpected. Interests include bicycles, Lion from Steven Universe, design, reading all of the Internet until you reach the end, and talking to people and making them laugh. Awarded the coveted title of ’Most Disruptive Quip Employee’ by Salesforce Red Team during The 2017 Operation. In his defense, he forgot.

Michael Handler

Garrett Scott

Garrett is a marketer at Quip. He spent the last 5 years helping to build New Relic’s marketing. An avid music lover, mostly of the underground variety, and all around nerd. Some might call him ‘Intimidating by Default’ but those who know him, know its only partially true.

Garrett Scott

Elliot Greenwald

Elliot works on the business team at Quip. Prior to that, he spent time helping to build sales and operations teams at Google Apps for Work and Switch Communications. As a San Francisco native, Elliot invests an unhealthy amount of time following the Giants, Stanford football and Jim Harbaugh.

Elliot Greenwald

Alexandra Meza

Alex is part of the Quip business team. She’s the youngest of 6 girls, a UCSD grad and a hot sauce addict. Her favorite activities include reading, dancing (not well), sampling tequilas with her husband and making friends with funny people. Prior to joining the Quip business team Alex worked at a small SaaS company called Salesforce where she helped emerging companies grow.

Alexandra Meza

Ryan Anderson

Ryan is a product marketer at Quip. He started a San Francisco-based brewery tour company and spent 5 years helping grow Atlassian Confluence. He obsessively rides his bikes and stretches out on a yoga mat. He’s unhealthily invested in the Golden State Warriors, his pet cat, and super burritos.

Ryan Anderson

Sara Rowland

Sara joins the Quip operations team from First Round Capital, where she managed event operations and the office. She has a BS in Economics from Duke (avoid her during March Madness), lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina for a semester, and loves mint chocolate chip milkshakes. Originally from “safe” Philadelphia, at all moments she is wondering what would happen if there was an earthquake RIGHT NOW.

Sara Rowland

Doug Royer

Bio coming soon!

Doug Royer

Pedram Razavi

Pedram joins Quip after completing his BS at MIT and MS at Stanford. After numerous attempts, he’s won the New Yorker weekly cartoon caption contest once.

Pedram Razavi

Namrata Prabhu

Namrata joins Quip all the way from Illinois after completing her BS and MS in Computer Science at UIUC. She has previously interned at Enova and Peel. She enjoys cooking, hiking, Netflix and adores animals.

Namrata Prabhu

Alon Levi

Before Quip, Alon worked as both an engineer and manager at Dropbox and on Google App Engine. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara. His hobbies include traveling, cooking, eating, and small-dachshund wrangling.

Alon Levi

Rajeev Nayak

Before joining Quip, Rajeev worked as an engineer at Dropbox and Google. He has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He’s a fan of basketball (and other sports), music, puzzles, bad puns, and quips.

Rajeev Nayak

Adam Morrison

Adam is part of Quip’s sales team supporting the Enterprise Business. Adam joined Quip from Mixpanel and New Relic prior to that, where he helped scale their enterprise business models. Outside of work, he enjoys everything outdoors, especially with his wife and two children, ages 4 and 7.

Adam Morrison

Alex Beaulieu

Bio coming soon!

Alex Beaulieu

Matt Hamann

Matt is a Bay Area native with a passion for all things SaaS. He joins the Quip Business Team to help teams and organizations work less dumb. Before joining Quip, Matt spent 4 years in multiple sales roles at New Relic. Before his tech career began at EMC, Matt was an aspiring PGA Teaching Professional and avid golfer. When he is not helping companies change the way they work, you can find him golfing or fly fishing throughout Northern California with family and friends.

Matt Hamann

Eugene Chen

Eugene joins Quip after finishing a BS in Mathematics from MIT. He is a former intern at Jane Street Capital, Quora, Five Rings Capital, and Addepar.

Eugene Chen

Robert MacNguyen

Robert comes to Quip with a MS in Statistics from Stanford to work on data science and analytics projects. Prior to joining Quip, Robert worked in mobile gaming and real money gambling, spending his days (and nights) thinking about how much people are worth.

Robert MacNguyen

Juli Fischer

Juli only works for companies with blue logos, as evidenced by her previous stints at Dropbox and Atlassian. At Quip she heads up content, spending her days planning, writing, and tinkering so Quip sounds and looks fantastic. She spends her spare time on books, yoga, wine, photography, dogs, and making huge messes in the kitchen.

Juli Fischer

Hira Rizvi

Hira joins Quip after finishing her degree at UCLA. After being born and raised in LA, Hira most notably spent a winter in Minnesota where she learned the true definition of cold and found her passion for hockey, particularly the Minnesota Wild. Despite now knowing true cold, she is perpetually cold in San Francisco. You can probably find her shivering with a cup of tea.

Hira Rizvi

Andrew Weishahn

Andy joins Quip’s sales team to grow our mid-market partnerships. He has a B.S. in Marketing and began his career as a corporate wine buyer. From there, he joined Mixpanel where he was part of the SMB and Enterprise sales teams. He grew up in Alaska and is passionate about snowboarding, golf, restaurant hunting and technology.

Andrew Weishahn

Brett Wines

Brett’s life as a climbing bum was cut short to come join Quip, where he’s a software engineer. In the (few) hours when he’s not working or climbing, he enjoys swing dancing and contributing to open-source Haskell projects. Brett studied logic at Stanford, where he was the captain of the ping-pong team!

Brett Wines

Andy Chung

Andy is a product designer from Vancouver, British Columbia. Prior to Quip, Andy worked both with design studio Unity&Variety, and independently on a drawing application called Pattern. Before that Andy was at Facebook where he lead the design of Reactions, and worked on products such as News Feed and Photos.

Andy Chung

Daniel Jackoway

Daniel joins Quip from Dropbox, where he was an engineer on a variety of large-scale data systems. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford, where he was a leader in the peer counseling center. Daniel enjoys eating great vegetarian food and seeing weird theatre.

Daniel Jackoway

Drew Hamlin

Drew joins Quip from Unity&Variety, a startup he co-founded that Quip acquired in 2017. Before Unity&Variety, Drew was a Product Designer and Product Design Manager at Facebook. Drew has a BFA in Visual Communication Design from University of Washington and he’s always up for a game of chess.

Drew Hamlin

Heather Hefner

Heather is apart of the Quip sales team, focused on supporting the mid-market segment in the Greater New York Area. Early on she found her passion for selling great software at New Relic and most recently helped build out the sales process for the open source container project, Docker. When she’s not hard at work, you can find her walking the beach with her Cavalier King Charles puppy, exploring the city on her Vespa, cooking, golfing, or plotting out the best SCUBA dive spots for the next vacation!

Heather Hefner

Marina Camim

Marina is a Business Operations Manager at Quip. She moved to the Bay Area from Boston where she spent 3 years at a software-focused investment banking and consulting firm. Marina wishes she had a long list of hobbies, but Mario Kart consumes 99.99% of her free time.

Marina Camim

Huy Nguyen

Huy comes to Quip from Dropbox where he worked on the desktop client, file sharing and growth. Prior to that, he worked on search ranking at Google, and Exadata at Oracle. He enjoys playing soccer, following Manchester United, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and two little monsters.

Huy Nguyen

Joshua Li

Bio coming soon!

Joshua Li

Lenore Lang

Lenore is the Director of Enterprise Sales at Quip. Most recently Lenore was at Mixpanel where she ran the Enterprise Sales Team, prior to that she held sales positions at New Relic and Hightail. When not in the office you can find Lenore exploring wine country and San Francisco restaurants.

Lenore Lang

Lindsey Simon

Lindsey is a a software engineer at Quip and brings his passion for product user experience to tools you can live and work in. He’s fascinated by mycology, writes music with the band Commoner, and plays competitive table tennis for fun. Prior to Quip, Lindsey worked at Google (App Engine, Translate, Surveys, Web Performance), Shift Technologies and Twist.

Lindsey Simon

Ross Cohen

Bio coming soon!

Ross Cohen

Mookie McDevitt

Mookie is a member of Quip’s sales team, focused on supporting our enterprise clients. A graduate of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Mookie has worked as a Sales Director at several AdTech firms, including Yahoo! & Mediamath. Mookie currently resides in the East Bay with his wife and two daughters, and he spends any free time he can find watching his favorite teams: Notre Dame Football & the Sacramento Kings (and, of course, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse).

Mookie McDevitt

Patrick Kelly

Patrick works on the customer success team at Quip. After graduating from Fordham in NYC, he moved to San Francisco to hone his customer service and management skills at La Boulange Bakery and Equator Coffees. Having grown up in Boston, he thinks about Dunkin Donuts almost every day.

Patrick Kelly

Stephanie Yung

Stephanie is a Success Manager at Quip, focused on making sure people are happier and more productive using Quip. In past lives, she’s worked at companies like GitHub and Marketo. As a good Bay Area native, she loves the outdoors, foodie things, and has a soft spot for the hippies of the sixties.

Stephanie Yung

Tooba Qadri

Tooba is a office operations and recruiting coordinator at Quip. She is originally from the Bay Area, but moved down to LA for college. After graduating she moved back to the Bay and worked as a HR assistant at a local property management company. When she is not busy going on food adventures in the city, she can be found planning vacations with her friends or watching funny cat videos.

Tooba Qadri

Joyce Zhu

Before joining Quip, Joyce went to the University of Rochester, where it often snows more than an inch, for degrees in Computer Science and Music. In her copious spare time she enjoys reading, playing the clarinet, hiking, listening to music, and drinking Manhattans.

Joyce Zhu

Selim Onal

Before Quip, Selim worked as a software engineer in Oracle, Google and Palantir. He has a BS from Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey and MS from Brown University. He has been involved with the non-profits since high school, and he is currently running a non-profit, Crossing Paths, which offers educational support to students in Turkey.

Selim Onal

Derin Dutz

Derin joins Quip after finishing his BS and MS in Computer Science at Stanford. He’s done AI research, interned at Facebook and Quip (!), and has started a company as part of Lightspeed’s incubator program. He’s an avid skier, prefers hugs over handshakes, and enjoys deep conversations. His name means “deep” in Turkish.

Derin Dutz

Amy Hanlon

Amy is a software engineer and aspiring knitwear designer. She previously worked at Venmo, attended Recurse Center in NYC, and studied Math at UT Austin.

Amy Hanlon

Tommy Vo

Tommy joins Quip after completing a BS and MS in Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His past experience includes interning at Facebook and Google. Aside from work, he’s devoted to following soccer, especially Chelsea, as well as occasionally jamming on his guitar.

Tommy Vo

Nikrad Mahdi

Bio coming soon!

Nikrad Mahdi

Scott Goodfriend

Scott’s primary job is feeding his cats; however, they believe they weren’t fed enough while he was making games at Pocket Gems. As an engineer at Quip, they hope he’ll be able to feed them more often. Scott has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Caltech and an MS in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley.

Scott Goodfriend

Elaine Chen

Elaine joins Quip by way of Apple and Yahoo. She has her BS from NTU and MS from Stanford in Electrical Engineering, and previously worked on speech recognition for several years. She enjoys cooking and hiking in her spare time.

Elaine Chen

Kurchi Hazra

Kurchi joins Quip by way of Oracle, Facebook where she worked on Search and Google where she worked on Youtube Ads. She has an MS from UIUC in Computer Science, and loves traveling and reading in her spare time.

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